alexia
See also: Alexia
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀ (a, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speech”) + English -ia.
Pronunciation
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Noun
alexia (countable and uncountable, plural alexias)
- (psychiatry) Word blindness, the inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.
Related terms
Translations
word blindness
Further reading
Portuguese
Noun
alexia f (uncountable)
- (psychiatry) alexia (inability to understand writing)